Alessandro Vendruscolo

There is a debate on whether HTML classes belong in your content. As in, classes that are strictly related to the presentation of that content. Sometimes the use of these classes is unavoidable. A callout paragraph, a pull quote, a carousel in the middle of a post... you'll need classes to style and add functionality to these things.

While you sometimes need them, the less you write them into the actual post content, in my opinion, the better.… Read article

The following is a guest post by Alessandro Vendruscolo, who wrote to me excited to write a guest post about a WordPress tool that I didn't know much about: Bedrock. It's not a theme, it's a way to install, configure, and manage WordPress with security and modern development practices in mind.… Read article

The following is a guest post by Alessandro Vendruscolo. Media queries are relevant to both CSS and JS. The need and desire to manage those in one place is real. There have been some clever ways to do this, like Jeremy Keith's Conditional CSS. But in that case, the onus is on you to test after window state changes. You can get a true listener with MediaQueryList, but then you're maintaining the media queries in both places again. … Read article

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